While millions of White, American Black, African, Korean and multiracial congregations get together in their churches to worship on Sunday morning  all across the USA, to learn about God, how they should know God and deal with sin in their lives, the same is also true for Hispanic congregations as well.

Although all Christians strive to live a godly life and avoid sin with God’s help, there is something that you won’t hear on a Sunday morning at a Spanish speaking service: The decision to return to their country and stop breaking the law that brought them here in the first place.   I bet you’re thinking, “All these Hispanics that are Christians came here illegally?” Well not all but most. 

Consider the demographics of Hispanic Pentecostal, Baptist and Catholic churches. These church attendees are usually not the wealthiest otherwise they would be able to pay their fees and come here legally. I am not saying we shouldn’t consider some reform. But we all know the law, let’s obey it. Why should Hispanics from Central and South America “cut in line” while so many people from other countries wait and do things the right way? No, they are the downtrodden, most likely of little means in their own country and they are desperate to make money and send it home to their families so they feel entitled to cross the border.

They may have their own church or they may rent a hall or be a small ministry of a larger church. What would be the loving thing to tell them, “I’ll give you money and clothes” and support the breaking of the law or that lovingly, “You broke the law”, please consider how this effects your Christian walk?   

In the name of political correctness and trying to be a good Samaritan we offer them free English classes, food and clothes, not that we shouldn’t help the less fortunate. That is not what I am saying.   They come here for a better life but they still broke the law.  When we speed, we usually get a ticket, we rob we go to jail. But yet of the millions that come here with falsified documents such as Social Security and green cards, some actually use these documents to get their actual citizenship. Most of them just hide out and work.   The government condones their breaking of the law by giving them citizenship.

I know that some want amnesty, and others just want deportation, I am not going to discuss the possible solutions, because the repercussions are just as costly as the solutions. I just want to rectify the original error. If I went to any other country illegally, I would not be treated in the same way, with the red carpet rolled out. I would be imprisoned at minimum and then summarily be deported with the possibility of some emotional and physical harassment.

Why aren’t we talking to our Hispanic friends and church members? Are we so afraid of liberals, of retaliation, of being labeled bigots? Well if it means I am not paying for free health care and education for illegal aliens that have no right to be here than I do without papers in their country, then call me a racist.    Many  are also afraid that when we do speak up that no one will take us seriously especially those in government who might be inundated with complaints to zoning and Sheriff’s let alone ICE agents who are overwhelmed.

If all the Christian Hispanics that came here illegally could put their faith in action, they would consider returning to their homes in obedience to the law and God. Then we actually might be able to save ourselves from the deportation costs let alone the money it would cost to give them amnesty.